diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main.go
index 249cb72..34f00a4 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main.go
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ var seatBuckets = []string{delivery.PlacementBucket, delivery.PlacementProposals
 // keptStates is what the assigner keeps and who may read it (ADR 0495 §2-§3): its wants by the watchman and the view
 // (and the node agent from release 6), its differences by the view, its compositions by the checker, its asks by the view
 // and the teller, its puts by whoever follows one (ADR 0546), and the seat mesh-placement's placement, proposals and
-// candidates by the node agents, the grants part, mesh-config and the view (ADR 0567 §9).
+// candidates by the node agents, the grants part, mesh-config and the view (ADR 0567 §9), and its placement by
+// the builder, the checker and the indexer, through mesh-sdk's toolchain gate (issue 774, ADR 0549 §3).
 var keptStates = []announce.State{
 	{Name: delivery.PlacementState, Readable: true},
 	{Name: delivery.PlacementProposalsState, Readable: true},
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ type buckets map[string]jetstream.KeyValue
 // without it and takes no put further until it starts again (ADR 0546).
 func open(ctx context.Context, js process.BucketOpener, logf func(string, ...any)) (buckets, error) {
 	out := buckets{}
-	// The controller's lease first (ADR 0549 §5, ADR 0561 §3): once it is handed away the catalogue's placement alone names
+	// The controller's lease first (ADR 0549 §5, ADR 0561 §3): once it is handed away the seat's placement alone names
 	// where modules run, and the controller's assignments are no bucket the assigner needs. Not granted or not there, the
 	// controller holds it, as before.
 	away, why := false, ""
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ func open(ctx context.Context, js process.BucketOpener, logf func(string, ...any
 		}
 		kv, err := js.KeyValue(ctx, name)
 		if name == provider.AssignmentsBucket && err != nil && away {
-			logf("the bucket %s cannot be opened (%v), and none is needed: %s, so the catalogue's placement alone is read", name, err, why)
+			logf("the bucket %s cannot be opened (%v), and none is needed: %s, so the seat's placement alone is read", name, err, why)
 			continue
 		}
 		if name == delivery.AssignerPutsBucket && err != nil {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main_test.go
index 877c1c6..f7a91d4 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main_test.go
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ func TestOpensWhatItsManifestNames(t *testing.T) {
 		{delivery.PartGrantsBucket, jetstream.ErrBucketNotFound, true, nil, "the controller's grants are read"},
 		{buscompose.LeaseBucket, errors.New("nats: permissions violation"), true, nil, "taken to hold its lease"},
 		{provider.AssignmentsBucket, errors.New("nats: permissions violation"), false, []byte(`{"instance":"novox/1"}`), ""},
-		{provider.AssignmentsBucket, errors.New("nats: permissions violation"), true, handed, "the catalogue's placement alone is read"},
+		{provider.AssignmentsBucket, errors.New("nats: permissions violation"), true, handed, "the seat's placement alone is read"},
 	} {
 		var logged string
 		kvs, err := open(context.Background(), refusingJS{missing: c.missing, err: c.err, lease: c.lease}, func(f string, a ...any) { logged += fmt.Sprintf(f, a...) })
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass_test.go
index a133712..35dc5af 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass_test.go
@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@ func (m *memKV) Update(_ context.Context, key string, value []byte, revision uin
 type memStore map[string]*memKV
 
 func (s memStore) get(state, key string) ([]byte, uint64, bool, error) {
+	if s[state] == nil {
+		return nil, 0, false, nil
+	}
 	v, ok := s[state].values[key]
 	return v, uint64(len(v)), ok, nil
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat.go
index 85d363d..5551616 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat.go
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ func (p *passer) followWrite(prop delivery.PlacementProposal, answer delivery.An
 	}
 	p.seat.record(answer.Warrant)
 	p.sayChanged(prop, answer, changes)
-	if p.seat != nil && !assign.Leased && !prop.Seed {
+	if p.seat != nil && !p.w.handedAway() && !prop.Seed {
 		p.seat.callAll(assign.ControllerCalls(before, written, prop.ID, answer.Warrant))
 	}
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat_tools.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat_tools.go
index 3c7e708..c955ac4 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat_tools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat_tools.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 
@@ -214,7 +215,7 @@ func (s *seatTools) doPropose(args map[string]any, by string) (any, error) {
 	}
 	now := s.now()
 	p, laid, findings := assign.Propose(assign.ProposeIn{ID: delivery.NewProposalID(now), By: by, Why: arg(args, "why"), At: now,
-		Changes: changes, Current: current, Revisions: revs, Held: held, Recorded: recorded})
+		Changes: changes, Current: current, Revisions: revs, Held: held, Recorded: recorded, Leased: s.leased()})
 	if len(findings) > 0 {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the proposal is refused: %s", strings.Join(findings, "; "))
 	}
@@ -298,7 +299,7 @@ func (s *seatTools) doAdopt(args map[string]any, by string) (any, error) {
 	now := s.now()
 	p, laid, findings := assign.Propose(assign.ProposeIn{ID: delivery.NewProposalID(now), By: by, Why: arg(args, "why"), At: now,
 		Changes: assign.SeedChanges(export), Current: map[string]delivery.Placement{}, Revisions: map[string]uint64{},
-		Held: held, Recorded: recorded, Seed: true, ExportDigest: delivery.ExportDigest(export)})
+		Held: held, Recorded: recorded, Seed: true, ExportDigest: delivery.ExportDigest(export), Leased: s.leased()})
 	if len(findings) > 0 {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the seed is refused: %s", strings.Join(findings, "; "))
 	}
@@ -308,6 +309,15 @@ func (s *seatTools) doAdopt(args map[string]any, by string) (any, error) {
 	return proposed{Proposal: p, Follow: followProposal(p.ID)}, nil
 }
 
+// leased says the controller's lease is handed away (mesh-sdk buscompose.LeaseHandedAway, ADR 0561 §3; issue 774): the lease
+// write of ADR 0547 that ends keeping the controller in step (ADR 0567 §8). A lease not read, a controller's, expired or
+// unreadable, is not handed away.
+func (s *seatTools) leased() bool {
+	raw, _, found, err := s.st.get(buscompose.ControllerLease, buscompose.ControllerLeaseKey)
+	away, _ := buscompose.LeaseHandedAway(raw, found && raw != nil, err)
+	return away
+}
+
 // handActCall records a hand act in the controller's hand-act log.
 const handActCall = "seat:" + catalogue.ControllerSeatName + ".hand-act"
 
@@ -315,7 +325,7 @@ const handActCall = "seat:" + catalogue.ControllerSeatName + ".hand-act"
 // proposal naming every key at its revision; the assigner raises its authorising ask and, on its warrant, deletes the keys,
 // records the hand act and says placement-changed; every node returns to the controller's compositions.
 func (s *seatTools) doHandBack(args map[string]any, by string) (any, error) {
-	if assign.Leased {
+	if s.leased() {
 		return nil, errors.New("placement is the mesh's alone since the lease write: there is no controller to hand it back to")
 	}
 	why := arg(args, "why")
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat.go
index 0874e81..05a02c6 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat.go
@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@ import (
 // `placement`, changed only by a proposal (§2) the nodes it touches answer (§3), judged (§4) and written on the
 // operator's Approve at the revision it was laid over (§5). What here decides; the tools and the passes do.
 
-// Leased says whether the lease write of ADR 0547 has happened, after which the controller's assignments are read no
-// more (§8). Not before L3: until then the holder keeps the controller in step and refuses what its verbs cannot take.
-var Leased = false
-
 // ProposeIn is what a proposal is laid over: its id, who and why, its changes; every node's current placement and the
 // revision of its key; which modules the indexer holds and which nodes have a record; and, for the seed, the export's
 // digest.
@@ -32,6 +28,10 @@ type ProposeIn struct {
 	Recorded     func(node string) bool
 	Seed         bool
 	ExportDigest string
+	// Leased says the lease write of ADR 0547 has happened (the controller's lease handed away, mesh-sdk
+	// buscompose.LeaseHandedAway; issue 774), after which the controller's assignments are read no more (§8): until then
+	// the holder keeps the controller in step and refuses what its verbs cannot take.
+	Leased bool
 }
 
 // Propose lays a proposal over the current keys (§2): the proposal (state answering, each changed node's base revision),
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ func Propose(in ProposeIn) (delivery.PlacementProposal, map[string]*delivery.Pla
 			findings = append(findings, fmt.Sprintf("change %d: the seed is adopt's alone, and never mixed with other changes", i+1))
 			continue
 		}
-		if !Leased {
+		if !in.Leased {
 			if why := c.BeforeLease(); why != "" {
 				findings = append(findings, fmt.Sprintf("change %d: %s", i+1, why))
 			}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat_test.go
index 1f9a8fd..257da34 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat_test.go
@@ -60,18 +60,18 @@ func TestThePlacementSeatDecides(t *testing.T) {
 	if _, _, f := Propose(in(delivery.PlacementProposalChange{Op: delivery.OpConfig, Node: "anchor", Module: "web", Values: map[string]any{"puid": 1}})); len(f) != 0 {
 		t.Errorf("config values before the lease write: %v", f)
 	}
-	Leased = true
 	for _, c := range []delivery.PlacementProposalChange{
 		{Op: delivery.OpPlace, Node: "laptop", Module: "web", Ports: map[string]int{"80": 8080}, Bindings: map[string]delivery.Provider{"db": {Node: "anchor", Module: "store"}}},
 		{Op: delivery.OpConfig, Node: "anchor", Module: "web", Layer: map[string]any{"places": []any{}}},
 		{Op: delivery.OpDecide, Node: "laptop", Field: "site", Value: json.RawMessage(`"attic"`)},
 		{Op: delivery.OpHold, Node: "anchor", Module: "store", Claim: "node-shell", Scope: "node"},
 	} {
-		if _, _, f := Propose(in(c)); len(f) != 0 {
+		leased := in(c)
+		leased.Leased = true
+		if _, _, f := Propose(leased); len(f) != 0 {
 			t.Errorf("after the lease write %s is refused: %v", c.Op, f)
 		}
 	}
-	Leased = false
 
 	// A key moved while the warrant wrote: what is left to write is the other nodes' changes, to be laid and asked again.
 	if rest, ok := Rest(p, map[string]*delivery.Placement{"anchor": laid["anchor"]}); !ok || len(rest.Changes) != 1 || rest.Changes[0].Node != "laptop" ||
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/cmd/mesh-delivery-builder/refused_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/cmd/mesh-delivery-builder/refused_test.go
index 6f17ab0..407c6ba 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/cmd/mesh-delivery-builder/refused_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/cmd/mesh-delivery-builder/refused_test.go
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import (
 
 // 1945 (a part exits at start for a bucket it works without): a bus that refuses every toolchains bucket leaves the
 // watch unstarted and the part running, said; a refused bucket it cannot work without is an error naming the bucket and
-// its grant. The gate over the catalogue's placement, and its refusal, are mesh-sdk's (buildrun.ToolchainGate,
+// its grant. The gate over the seat's placement, and its refusal, are mesh-sdk's (buildrun.ToolchainGate,
 // issue 774).
 func TestARefusedBucketIsSaidAndThePartGoesOn(t *testing.T) {
 	set := &buildrun.ToolchainSet{}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/manifest_test.go
index aac3324..317274b 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/manifest_test.go
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1607/AC1
 	// 1887/A4c: the builder chooses no node, so it reads neither presence nor have, invokes no build module's tool and
 	// holds no capacity; it puts asks on the three build seats and reads their steps (ADR 0525 §1, §4, §5).
 	if want := []string{"mesh-build-go.steps", "mesh-build-go.toolchains", "mesh-build-image.steps", "mesh-build-node.steps", "mesh-build-node.toolchains",
-		"mesh-delivery-gate.source", "mesh-delivery-indexer.candidates", "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests", "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules", "mesh-delivery-indexer.placement"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted(m.Reads), want) {
+		"mesh-delivery-assigner.placement", "mesh-delivery-gate.source", "mesh-delivery-indexer.candidates", "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests", "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted(m.Reads), want) {
 		t.Errorf("reads = %v, want %v", m.Reads, want)
 	}
 	if want := []string{"node-build-go", "node-build-image", "node-build-node"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted(m.Uses), want) {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/module.json
index 9e72a1b..8671b1f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/module.json
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@
     "mesh-build-image.steps",
     "mesh-build-node.steps",
     "mesh-build-node.toolchains",
+    "mesh-delivery-assigner.placement",
     "mesh-delivery-gate.source",
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.candidates",
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests",
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules",
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.placement"
+    "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules"
   ],
   "uses": [
     "node-build-go",
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/refused_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/refused_test.go
index 2dcb4c6..3c20242 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/refused_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/refused_test.go
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import (
 
 // 1945 (a part exits at start for a bucket it works without): a bus that refuses every toolchains bucket leaves the
 // watch unstarted and the part running, said; a refused bucket it cannot work without is an error naming the bucket and
-// its grant. The gate over the catalogue's placement, and its refusal, are mesh-sdk's (buildrun.ToolchainGate,
+// its grant. The gate over the seat's placement, and its refusal, are mesh-sdk's (buildrun.ToolchainGate,
 // issue 774).
 func TestARefusedBucketIsSaidAndThePartGoesOn(t *testing.T) {
 	set := &buildrun.ToolchainSet{}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/manifest_test.go
index 70803df..218d358 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/manifest_test.go
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1678/AC1
 		t.Errorf("state = %+v, want %+v", m.State, want)
 	}
 	if want := []string{"mesh-build-go.steps", "mesh-build-go.toolchains", "mesh-build-node.steps", "mesh-build-node.toolchains",
-		"mesh-delivery-assigner.compositions", "mesh-delivery-builder.builds", "mesh-delivery-gate.source", "mesh-delivery-gate.turns", "mesh-delivery-indexer.candidates",
-		"mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests", "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules", "mesh-delivery-indexer.placement", "mesh-delivery-watchman.presence", "node-engine.have"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted(m.Reads), want) {
+		"mesh-delivery-assigner.compositions", "mesh-delivery-assigner.placement", "mesh-delivery-builder.builds", "mesh-delivery-gate.source", "mesh-delivery-gate.turns", "mesh-delivery-indexer.candidates",
+		"mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests", "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules", "mesh-delivery-watchman.presence", "node-engine.have"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted(m.Reads), want) {
 		t.Errorf("reads = %v, want %v", m.Reads, want)
 	}
 	// 1887/A5b: the checker reads nothing of the controller's plans-building (ADR 0483 superseded by ADR 0525 §7), calls no
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/module.json
index a4e96cb..f020663 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/module.json
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@
     "mesh-build-node.steps",
     "mesh-build-node.toolchains",
     "mesh-delivery-assigner.compositions",
+    "mesh-delivery-assigner.placement",
     "mesh-delivery-builder.builds",
     "mesh-delivery-gate.source",
     "mesh-delivery-gate.turns",
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.candidates",
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests",
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules",
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.placement",
     "mesh-delivery-watchman.presence",
     "node-engine.have"
   ],
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/integration_test.go
index 87f6168..e27b51f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/integration_test.go
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ func TestIndexerCountsOnlyThePlacedBuildNodesToolchains(t *testing.T) {
 				t.Fatal(err)
 			}
 		}
-		// The indexer's placement, as the catalogue's files put it there (ADR 0549 §2): n1 places mesh-build-go, n2 nothing.
+		// The seat mesh-placement's placement, as the assigner writes it (ADR 0567): n1 places mesh-build-go, n2 nothing.
 		if placement, err = js.CreateKeyValue(ctx, jetstream.KeyValueConfig{Bucket: delivery.PlacementBucket, History: delivery.PlacementHistory}); err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
index e74b82b..900ac2c 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC1, 1444 (reads the build
 	if want := []state{{Name: "candidates", History: 10}, {Name: "heard", History: 64}, {Name: "manifests", History: 1}, {Name: "modules", History: 20}, {Name: "taken", History: 1}, {Name: "takeins", History: 1}}; !reflect.DeepEqual(m.State, want) {
 		t.Errorf("state = %+v, want %+v", m.State, want)
 	}
-	if want := []string{"mesh-build-go.toolchains", "mesh-build-node.toolchains", "mesh-controller.builds", "mesh-delivery-checker.previews", "mesh-delivery-gate.source"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted(m.Reads), want) {
+	if want := []string{"mesh-build-go.toolchains", "mesh-build-node.toolchains", "mesh-controller.builds", "mesh-delivery-assigner.placement", "mesh-delivery-checker.previews", "mesh-delivery-gate.source"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted(m.Reads), want) {
 		t.Errorf("reads = %v, want %v", m.Reads, want)
 	}
 	// "Reads FORGE" is a consumes of the indexer's stream: the broker grants only buckets by reads (mesh-control
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
index 282fa60..693205a 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     "mesh-build-go.toolchains",
     "mesh-build-node.toolchains",
     "mesh-controller.builds",
+    "mesh-delivery-assigner.placement",
     "mesh-delivery-checker.previews",
     "mesh-delivery-gate.source"
   ],
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/cmd/mesh-delivery-view/integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/cmd/mesh-delivery-view/integration_test.go
index a32dc7a..140707e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/cmd/mesh-delivery-view/integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/cmd/mesh-delivery-view/integration_test.go
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ func TestProcessWholeSeesTheBuckets(t *testing.T) { // 1134/AC8
 		}
 		return b
 	}
-	// The catalogue's placement (issue 774, ADR 0549 §3): x and y on a, nothing on b.
+	// The seat's placement (issue 774, ADR 0549 §3): x and y on a, nothing on b.
 	placeValue := func(node string, modules ...string) []byte {
 		p := delivery.Placement{Node: node}
 		for _, m := range modules {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/cmd/mesh-delivery-view/main.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/cmd/mesh-delivery-view/main.go
index 3a2247b..dfdd0c5 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/cmd/mesh-delivery-view/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/cmd/mesh-delivery-view/main.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Command mesh-delivery-view is the operator's view of delivery (novox/hq ADR 0429 §3): it watches the have, the catalogue's placement
+// Command mesh-delivery-view is the operator's view of delivery (novox/hq ADR 0429 §3): it watches the have, the seat's placement
 // and builds buckets on its own bus credential, derives one row per module and node in memory, and serves them on a
 // local socket (for mesh-delivery-cli) and on a local web page. It starts, stops or retries nothing; the one thing it writes is the operator's answer to an ask that needs no proof of who
 // answered, under `<ask key>.view` in its bucket answers (ADR 0528 clause 6).
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/read.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/read.go
index 6db6e79..9fdbe2f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/read.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/read.go
@@ -737,230 +737,3 @@ func (r Reader) Trusts() (TrustsAnswer, error) {
 	}
 	return out, nil
 }
-
-// Placement is the indexer's placement as stored (ADR 0549 §2): one node's key with node, every node placing a module
-// with module (each node's key whole, so its pins, ports and bindings are beside the module), and every node's key with
-// neither. A key that does not read as a placement is listed as unreadable, never dropped.
-//
-// Beside it, candidates (issue 1126, ADR 0549 §4): each open catalogue pull request's placement of a node that differs from
-// the trunk's (the indexer's placement-candidates `<group>.<node>`), narrowed the same way, each with the node's answer from
-// its `<node>.node` have and whether that answer is for the candidate as it stands (its head and key revision).
-func (r Reader) Placement(node, module string) (map[string]any, error) {
-	node, module = strings.TrimSpace(node), strings.TrimSpace(module)
-	if r.PlacementState.Keys == nil || r.PlacementState.Get == nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the placement state cannot be read here")
-	}
-	candidates, err := r.PlacementCandidates(node, module)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	if node != "" {
-		key, err := delivery.PlacementKey(node)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		raw, err := r.PlacementState.Get(key)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		if len(raw) == 0 && len(candidates) == 0 {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("no placement of %s: the catalogue holds no placement file for it, or the indexer has read none yet", node)
-		}
-		out := map[string]json.RawMessage{}
-		if len(raw) > 0 {
-			out[node] = raw
-		}
-		return map[string]any{"placement": out, "candidates": candidates}, nil
-	}
-	keys, err := r.PlacementState.Keys()
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	sort.Strings(keys)
-	values, err := r.PlacementState.values(keys)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	out := map[string]json.RawMessage{}
-	var unreadable []string
-	for i, key := range keys {
-		n, err := delivery.ParsePlacementKey(key)
-		if err != nil {
-			unreadable = append(unreadable, key)
-			continue
-		}
-		p, err := delivery.DecodePlacement(values[i])
-		if err != nil {
-			unreadable = append(unreadable, key)
-			continue
-		}
-		if module != "" && !slices.Contains(p.Assigned(), module) {
-			continue
-		}
-		out[n] = values[i]
-	}
-	return map[string]any{"placement": out, "unreadable": unreadable, "candidates": candidates}, nil
-}
-
-// The states of a node's answer to a placement candidate, as the view and the assigner's check read it.
-const (
-	// AnswerNone: the node's have holds no answer for the candidate's group (a node asleep, or not composing yet).
-	AnswerNone = "none"
-	// AnswerStale: the node answered an earlier head or revision of the candidate.
-	AnswerStale = "stale"
-)
-
-// CandidateRow is one placement candidate and the node's answer to it.
-type CandidateRow struct {
-	Group     string                    `json:"group"`
-	Node      string                    `json:"node"`
-	Pull      delivery.Head             `json:"pull"`
-	Revision  uint64                    `json:"revision"`
-	Placement json.RawMessage           `json:"placement,omitempty"` // the candidate value as stored
-	Removes   bool                      `json:"removes,omitempty"`   // the head removes the node's file
-	Answered  string                    `json:"answered"`            // same, differs, refused, stale or none
-	Answer    *delivery.CandidateAnswer `json:"answer,omitempty"`
-}
-
-// PlacementCandidates is every placement candidate, narrowed by node and by a module its placement names, with each
-// node's answer; beside each group's keys, a row for every other node placed at the group's head or on the trunk, whose
-// answer counts by the head alone (its file is unchanged, so it has no key, ADR 0559 §5, §7). A key that does not read is
-// a row naming only its key's group and node, answered none, never dropped.
-func (r Reader) PlacementCandidates(node, module string) ([]CandidateRow, error) {
-	st := r.PlacementCandidatesState
-	if st.Keys == nil || st.GetEntry == nil {
-		return []CandidateRow{}, nil
-	}
-	keys, err := st.Keys()
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("reading the placement candidates: %w", err)
-	}
-	sort.Strings(keys)
-	// The trunk's placed nodes, each with its modules.
-	trunk := map[string][]string{}
-	if r.PlacementState.Keys != nil && r.PlacementState.Get != nil {
-		if tkeys, err := r.PlacementState.Keys(); err == nil {
-			for _, k := range tkeys {
-				n, err := delivery.ParsePlacementKey(k)
-				if err != nil {
-					continue
-				}
-				if raw, err := r.PlacementState.Get(k); err == nil && len(raw) > 0 {
-					if p, err := delivery.DecodePlacement(raw); err == nil {
-						trunk[n] = p.Assigned()
-					}
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	type group struct {
-		pull   delivery.Head
-		keyed  map[string]bool
-		placed map[string]bool
-	}
-	groups := map[string]*group{}
-	answers := map[string]map[string]delivery.CandidateAnswer{} // node, then group
-	answerOf := func(n, g string) (delivery.CandidateAnswer, bool) {
-		if _, read := answers[n]; !read {
-			answers[n] = r.candidateAnswers(n)
-		}
-		a, ok := answers[n][g]
-		return a, ok
-	}
-	rows := []CandidateRow{}
-	for _, key := range keys {
-		gname, n, err := delivery.ParsePlacementCandidateKey(key)
-		if err != nil {
-			continue
-		}
-		raw, rev, err := st.GetEntry(key)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("reading %s: %w", key, err)
-		}
-		if len(raw) == 0 {
-			continue
-		}
-		g := groups[gname]
-		if g == nil {
-			g = &group{keyed: map[string]bool{}, placed: map[string]bool{}}
-			groups[gname] = g
-		}
-		g.keyed[n] = true
-		row := CandidateRow{Group: gname, Node: n, Revision: rev, Placement: raw, Answered: AnswerNone}
-		c, err := delivery.DecodePlacementCandidate(raw)
-		if err == nil {
-			g.pull = c.Pull
-			if c.Placement != nil {
-				g.placed[n] = true
-			}
-			row.Pull, row.Removes = c.Pull, c.Placement == nil
-			if module != "" && (c.Placement == nil || !slices.Contains(c.Placement.Assigned(), module)) {
-				continue
-			}
-		} else if module != "" {
-			continue
-		}
-		if node != "" && n != node {
-			continue
-		}
-		if a, ok := answerOf(n, gname); ok && err == nil {
-			row.Answer = &a
-			row.Answered = AnswerOf(c.Pull.Head, rev, true, a)
-		}
-		rows = append(rows, row)
-	}
-	for _, gname := range slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(groups)) {
-		g := groups[gname]
-		if g.pull.Head == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-		others := map[string]bool{}
-		for n := range trunk {
-			others[n] = true
-		}
-		for n := range g.placed {
-			others[n] = true
-		}
-		for _, n := range slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(others)) {
-			if g.keyed[n] || (node != "" && n != node) || (module != "" && !slices.Contains(trunk[n], module)) {
-				continue
-			}
-			row := CandidateRow{Group: gname, Node: n, Pull: g.pull, Answered: AnswerNone}
-			if a, ok := answerOf(n, gname); ok {
-				row.Answer = &a
-				row.Answered = AnswerOf(g.pull.Head, 0, false, a)
-			}
-			rows = append(rows, row)
-		}
-	}
-	return rows, nil
-}
-
-// AnswerOf is the state of a node's answer a to its group's candidates at head: its verdict when it answers that head
-// and, for a node with a key of its own (keyed), that key's revision rev; AnswerStale otherwise.
-func AnswerOf(head string, rev uint64, keyed bool, a delivery.CandidateAnswer) string {
-	if a.Head != head || (keyed && a.Revision != rev) {
-		return AnswerStale
-	}
-	return a.Verdict
-}
-
-// candidateAnswers is a node's answers to its candidates, by group, from its `<node>.node` have; none when it has none.
-func (r Reader) candidateAnswers(node string) map[string]delivery.CandidateAnswer {
-	if r.HavesState.Get == nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	key, err := delivery.HaveNodeKey(node)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	raw, err := r.HavesState.Get(key)
-	if err != nil || len(raw) == 0 {
-		return nil
-	}
-	h, err := delivery.DecodeHaveNode(raw)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	return h.Candidates
-}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/view.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/view.go
index 165ad55..7f8acc1 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/view.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/view.go
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ type UnreadableRow struct {
 // Model holds the rows' inputs in memory and nothing else: a restart fills it again from the buckets' last values.
 type Model struct {
 	mu             sync.Mutex
-	placed         *delivery.Placed       // the catalogue's placement (the indexer's state, ADR 0549 §3)
+	placed         *delivery.Placed       // the seat's placement (the assigner's state, ADR 0567, ADR 0549 §3)
 	builds         map[string]buildEntry  // by <module>.build.<id>
 	groups         map[string]groupEntry  // the indexer's candidates, by group
 	modules        map[string]moduleEntry // the indexer's modules, by module
@@ -264,10 +264,10 @@ type stuckEntry struct {
 	err   string
 }
 
-// pair is a module the catalogue's placement puts on a node.
+// pair is a module the seat's placement puts on a node.
 type pair struct{ Node, Module string }
 
-// placedPairs is every module the catalogue's placement puts on a node, by node then module. The caller holds mu.
+// placedPairs is every module the seat's placement puts on a node, by node then module. The caller holds mu.
 func (m *Model) placedPairs() []pair {
 	byNode := m.placed.ByNode()
 	var out []pair
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ func (m *Model) apply(e Entry) {
 		st, err := delivery.DecodeStuck(e.Value)
 		m.stuck[e.Key] = stuckEntry{value: st, err: errText(err)}
 	case delivery.PlacementBucket:
-		// A key that does not read places nothing on its node; the indexer's own read tool says why.
+		// A key that does not read places nothing on its node; the seat's verb placement says why.
 		_, _, _ = m.placed.Put(e.Key, e.Value, e.Deleted, e.At)
 	case delivery.CandidatesBucket:
 		if e.Deleted {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/view_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/view_test.go
index 5acc786..f4f8840 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/view_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/view_test.go
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ func haveE(t *testing.T, node, module string, v []byte, at time.Time) Entry {
 	return Entry{Bucket: delivery.HaveBucket, Key: node + "." + module, Value: v, At: at}
 }
 
-// place is the catalogue's placement of node, as the indexer keeps it (ADR 0549 §2): the modules placed there.
+// place is the seat's placement of node, as the assigner keeps it (ADR 0567): the modules placed there.
 func place(t *testing.T, node string, modules ...string) Entry {
 	t.Helper()
 	p := delivery.Placement{Node: node}
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ func TestRowsPerAssignedModuleAndNode(t *testing.T) { // 1134/AC1
 	}
 }
 
-func TestLeftBehindIsWhatThePlacementDoesNotPut(t *testing.T) { // 1134/AC3, issue 774 (the catalogue's placement)
+func TestLeftBehindIsWhatThePlacementDoesNotPut(t *testing.T) { // 1134/AC3, issue 774 (the seat's placement)
 	m := New()
 	fill(m, base(t)...)
 	fill(m, place(t, "b", "x")) // z taken off b
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/wants_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/wants_test.go
index 80cdbc5..80759a7 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/wants_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/wants_test.go
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ func TestARowReadsTheWantWhenTheAssignmentNamesNoBuild(t *testing.T) {
 // and a have nothing is assigned to keeps the module's name.
 func TestADottedModuleNameIsFoundAndKept(t *testing.T) {
 	m := New()
-	// The catalogue's placement refuses a dotted module name (mesh-sdk delivery.Placement), so such a module is never placed:
+	// The seat's placement refuses a dotted module name (mesh-sdk delivery.Placement), so such a module is never placed:
 	// its have is a row left behind under its own name.
 	fill(m, place(t, "ace"), wantE(t, "ace", "novox.be", delivery.Want{FP: fpNew}), haveFP(t, "ace", "novox.be", fpNew, delivery.HealthOK),
 		haveFP(t, "ace", "old.name", fpNew, delivery.HealthOK))
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/manifest_test.go
index 00f8bfb..47727fe 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/manifest_test.go
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func TestManifestIsTakenAndReadsOnly(t *testing.T) { // 1134/AC7
 	if m.Module != "mesh-delivery-view" {
 		t.Errorf("module = %q", m.Module)
 	}
-	want := []string{"mesh-build-go.pauses", "mesh-build-go.steps", "mesh-build-image.pauses", "mesh-build-image.steps", "mesh-build-node.pauses", "mesh-build-node.steps", "mesh-config.resolved", "mesh-controller.builds", "mesh-controller.composed", "mesh-delivery-assigner.asks", "mesh-delivery-assigner.differences", "mesh-delivery-assigner.wants", "mesh-delivery-builder.builds", "mesh-delivery-checker.tries", "mesh-delivery-gate.asks", "mesh-delivery-gate.source", "mesh-delivery-indexer.candidates", "mesh-delivery-indexer.heard", "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules", "mesh-delivery-indexer.taken", "mesh-delivery-teller.answers", "mesh-delivery-watchman.presence", "mesh-delivery-watchman.stuck", "mesh-vault.signers", "node-engine.have"} // build_usage reads the build modules' steps and pauses, mesh-config's capacities and the checker's tries; 1168/AC1, 1241/AC4, 1345/AC3, 1297/B8, B9
+	want := []string{"mesh-build-go.pauses", "mesh-build-go.steps", "mesh-build-image.pauses", "mesh-build-image.steps", "mesh-build-node.pauses", "mesh-build-node.steps", "mesh-config.resolved", "mesh-controller.builds", "mesh-controller.composed", "mesh-delivery-assigner.asks", "mesh-delivery-assigner.differences", "mesh-delivery-assigner.placement", "mesh-delivery-assigner.wants", "mesh-delivery-builder.builds", "mesh-delivery-checker.tries", "mesh-delivery-gate.asks", "mesh-delivery-gate.source", "mesh-delivery-indexer.candidates", "mesh-delivery-indexer.heard", "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules", "mesh-delivery-indexer.taken", "mesh-delivery-teller.answers", "mesh-delivery-watchman.presence", "mesh-delivery-watchman.stuck", "mesh-vault.signers", "node-engine.have"} // build_usage reads the build modules' steps and pauses, mesh-config's capacities and the checker's tries; 1168/AC1, 1241/AC4, 1345/AC3, 1297/B8, B9
 	got := slices.Clone(m.Reads)
 	slices.Sort(got)
 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/module.json
index d9a4add..895fa21 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/module.json
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
     { "name": "reach", "history": 1 }
   ],
   "reads": [
-    "mesh-controller.builds",
     "mesh-build-go.pauses",
     "mesh-build-go.steps",
     "mesh-build-image.pauses",
@@ -39,9 +38,11 @@
     "mesh-build-node.pauses",
     "mesh-build-node.steps",
     "mesh-config.resolved",
+    "mesh-controller.builds",
     "mesh-controller.composed",
     "mesh-delivery-assigner.asks",
     "mesh-delivery-assigner.differences",
+    "mesh-delivery-assigner.placement",
     "mesh-delivery-assigner.wants",
     "mesh-delivery-builder.builds",
     "mesh-delivery-checker.tries",
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/grants_test.go b/modules/mesh-grants/grants_test.go
index b10ec95..694a03e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/grants_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/grants_test.go
@@ -2059,7 +2059,7 @@ func TestGrants(t *testing.T) {
 			if slices.Contains(m.Reads, grants.ReadAssignments) {
 				reads[m.Module] = true
 				if !allowed[m.Module] {
-					t.Errorf("%s reads %s: read where modules run from the indexer's placement (ADR 0549 §3); the lease write "+
+					t.Errorf("%s reads %s: read where modules run from the seat mesh-placement's placement (ADR 0549 §3); the lease write "+
 						"is refused while a module reads the assignments (ADR 0549 §6)", m.Module, grants.ReadAssignments)
 				}
 			}
@@ -2072,7 +2072,7 @@ func TestGrants(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 
 	// 774 (the L3 review, ADR 0549 §3, §6): once the controller's lease is handed away the assignments are frozen and place
-	// nothing; the catalogue's placement alone does. A module left only in the stale assignments loses its account and its
+	// nothing; the seat's placement alone does. A module left only in the stale assignments loses its account and its
 	// grant names no account of it; before the lease write the two are still unioned.
 	t.Run("placement alone once the lease is handed away: a module only in the stale assignments has no account or grant of it", func(t *testing.T) {
 		b := fixture()
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/inputs.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/inputs.go
index 710c97a..0637541 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/inputs.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/inputs.go
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ type resolved struct {
 type Inputs struct {
 	// Nodes is every machine seen: in a node agent's have or a standing assignment.
 	Nodes []string
-	// Assigned is each machine's standing assignments and what the catalogue's placement puts there, sorted: while both
+	// Assigned is each machine's standing assignments and what the seat's placement puts there, sorted: while both
 	// stand (ADR 0549 §5) a module either names keeps its membership.
 	Assigned map[string][]string
 	// Placed is each node's placement as the seat mesh-placement holds it (ADR 0567 §1); empty before any is read.
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ func ReadInputs(r Reader, cache *Manifests) Inputs {
 	away, _ := leaseHandedAway(r)
 	if away && len(in.Placed) > 0 {
 		in.Gaps = append(in.Gaps, Gap{Input: ReadAssignments, Why: "not used: the controller's lease is handed away, " +
-			"so the catalogue's placement alone places modules (ADR 0549 §3, §6)"})
+			"so the seat's placement alone places modules (ADR 0549 §3, §6)"})
 	} else {
 		for node, ms := range byAssignment {
 			nodes[node] = true